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Author: Joseph Forsyth Publisher: University of Delaware Press ISBN: 9780874137569 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 414
Book Description
Informed study repays the reader with a deeper sense of how Forsyth reacted to the classical past and appreciated the contemporary cultural and political condition of Italy. This new edition provides the necessary material to read Remarks not only for pleasure but as a challenging example of what was regarded as the best kind of travel writing.".
Author: Joseph Forsyth Publisher: University of Delaware Press ISBN: 9780874137569 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 414
Book Description
Informed study repays the reader with a deeper sense of how Forsyth reacted to the classical past and appreciated the contemporary cultural and political condition of Italy. This new edition provides the necessary material to read Remarks not only for pleasure but as a challenging example of what was regarded as the best kind of travel writing.".
Author: Keith Crook Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 1684481627 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 266
Book Description
The historical moment Forsyth's Italy -- Forsyth's prisons -- The 1813 and the 1816 versions of Forsyth's Italy -- Talking to Italians -- The hidden thoughts of Joseph Forsyth -- Visual arts, architecture, and literature -- The letters of the Forsyth brothers.
Author: Chloe Chard Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719048050 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
This work examines the forms of language that map out Italy as an imaginative topography of pleasure within British and French travel writing, over the period 1600 to 1830. It considers the tour with reference to strategies of description and themes.
Author: Jennifer Speake Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135456631 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 1425
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Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author: Joseph Forsyth
Author: Joseph Forsyth
Author: Joseph Forsyth
Author: Joseph Forsyth
Author: Keith Crook
Author: Chloe Chard
Author: Jennifer Speake
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Author: Robert Chambers
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley